Henry V of Germany

Henry V of Germany (1048-1125) was the king of Germany from 1106 until his death in 1125. As the leader of the Holy Roman Empire he took part in wars with the Duchy of Milan and the Italian city-states.

Biography
Henry V was the eldest natural son of Henry IV of Germany and Bertada of Savoy, biological brother of Agnes of Germany and Leopold of Vienna. Henry V was a healthy man and a promising commander, taking Magdeburg in 1094 from the German Rebels of the empire.

He took an oath to have no affairs in the empire during his father's life but rebelled in 1104, and Pope Paschal II dispensed him from the oath in 1105. He became king a year later after his father's death.